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Don’t know that this is really related to investing but the annual COLA number for 2025 is 2.5%. Don’t spend it all in one place.

Vierling has made his mark in Detroit for sure. If I had to choose a favorite Tiger player this season he’d be the guy. He’s the same player every day. Leads by example and does whatever is asked of him.

Montero getting the start.

Javy is a rare breed. He’s proven to be more valuable in the dugout than on the field.

I am frankly surprised to see this headline. https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/more-americans-identify-as-republican-than-democrat-heres-what-that-means-for-the-election-150e12ae?mod=mhp

Looking for a Tigers win today and a Dodgers loss tonight.

That can’t be undone and that’s not my point, as you well know.

What does that mean in 2024? I would think it suggests that voters make a balanced budget an issue. With a month to go…*crickets* ———- Source: Investopedia: According to a study by the World Bank, countries with a debt-to-GDP ratio above 77% for a prolonged period experience significant slowdowns in economic growth. As of the second quarter of 2024, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio was 121.57%. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio has been above 77% since 2009, following the financial crisis that started in 2007. ——— MB, The projections going forward show the debt-to-GDP ratio continues to escalate. This will be problematic for younger generations (that would be you sir).

We as a nation will suffer the consequences. My point in bringing this up is that neither party will even broach the topic because of the hard choices that it would require. There have been a handful of congress people that are voicing urgency here but the top of the ticket should be a part of the game. The debt you refer to is a two party issue. There has to be a national conversation on this. Instead the two candidates, who should be leading the conversation here won’t touch it. They’re more interested in buying votes with more promises (spending). Unfortunately for most Americans, this Is the ultimate out of sight-out of mind situation.

Medical issues and the related costs, particularly in our latter years, can be devastating. It is scary.

As a nation we’re screwed if something isn’t done to address this debt. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/budget-deficit-national-debt-2024-079d8d13?mod=mhp Neither candidate even acknowledges the problem. What problem, right!

Wasn’t there a spat some years back involving NJ Governor Christie regarding a bridge closing that was making life difficult for some people? I don’t recall specifics but I think it originated in political differences.

Unbelievable

Other than Skub, what happened to the, October Ready thing.

Boyd picked a bad day to be good.

Not good at all

10 yr yield closed above 4%.

+1

I hadn’t intended for this piece to immediately be partisan…should have known better. Your response would probably play well in congress. Pointing fingers is the norm. Bipartisan endeavors for the sake of fiscal sanity are indeed rare in Washington, on both sides. Neither candidate will touch this issue because campaign promises in return for votes is easier.

This is what concerns me about this presidential cycle. This piece is a balanced look at what isn’t being addressed in the campaigns, a mountain of growing debt! https://www.wral.com/story/harris-proposals-would-increase-the-national-debt-but-trump-s-would-add-even-more-study-finds/21660778/

Jack misses Fett.

For me… The best outcome in the playoffs is that the Tigers win the World Series. The runner up consolation if that doesn’t happen is that the Dodgers DON’T win the World Series. A huge bonus to that consolation would be that the Dodgers don’t even make it to the World Series.

Even Al Avila wouldn’t have made this trade. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants. The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law enforcement sting operation. Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter.

I remember this episode very well.

-or- In a battleground state like North Carolina, a vote for anyone but Trump is in effect a vote for Harris. Do you consider the above statement to be equally accurate?